Let us not be enemies

but live as Father and child.

Let not my flesh be master

and my appetite for the world run wild.

 

Let my vision be focused

on holiness, righteousness, and truth.

Let my heart be centered,

mind visually fixed on You.

 

If I must have an addiction,

let me be wise and adamantly choose

a divine and holy elixir,

a heavenly liqueur

 

that makes me thirsty and giddy

and seek the wide world o'er

for something simple, untamed, alive

over which I have no control -

 

a mysterious wind, a holy Piper perhaps

whose distant music rouses my feet to life,

or a warrior King, eternal purpose at hand

whose sword and might and cry

 

announce freedom for all who will follow -

liberty, fair play, new life,

something worthy - "to die for,"

something enormous, larger than just me.

 

Oh, please let us live as Father and child.

Let us not be as enemies.